[kach22i]

Originally Posted by JTO

Kachi,
Those pictures of teh SES100A bring back memories. My dad was a test engineer on that program in the 70s. I would fly chase in the helicopter. I drew dozens of pictures of that ship when I was a kid.

Troy

Was it the front cabin SES100A or the aft cabin SES100B crews which recieved the 100 knot pins?

One of the much later SES's have been fitted with a mid-mounted lifting body wing/foil.

Required random picture:
http://www.marinelog.com/DOCS/NEWSMMIII/MMIIIJun10.html




http://www.dt.navy.mil/div/about/galleries/gallery3/072.html
http://www.dt.navy.mil/about_us/photo_galleries/photo_gallery_3/photo_gallery_3.html

Surface Effect Ships. Within the Aerodynamics Department at Carderock, work on advanced surface effect ships began as early as 1957, leading to SES 100A by Aerojet-General (foreground) and 100B by Bell-Textron in the early 1970s.


My hovercraft experiment - always a work in progress:
http://carnuts.us/viewtopic.php?t=446